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Live an Eco-Smart Life
Our consulting services will help you, your family and your business to save money, live a healthier life and protect the environment by determining what techniques or products work best for your home or business.
We can help by assisting with incorporating "Eco" in new and existing commercial property (schools, churches, warehouses, stores, appartment complexes, complete subdivisions), new home building design, residential/commercial renovations, tenant up-fits.
We will help architechtural and engineering firms, land planners, construction companies, schools, municipalties and building owners develop and integrate green building and eco-design features to make their structures more environmentally sustainable and energy efficient.
We will research local and regional suppliers of Eco-friendly and healthy building materials and new green technolgies to help you meet design goals, and we can support the project from concept through occupancy, if required.
Or we simply can make suggestions for a quick-fix of your high powerbills.
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Eco Smart = Sustainable = Healthy
- Green buildings conserve natural resources by using recycled, reclaimed, or sustainable produced materials.
- They improve air, acoustic, thermal and water quality.
- They conserve water and reduce solid waste while they enhance and protect ecosystems and biodiversity.
- In the long run they save money through reduced energy and resource consumption while contributing to the quality of life.
We are passionate about the benefits of sustainability.
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Retrofitting and renovation
Retrofitting commercial buildings and homes to make them more energy efficient is probably one of the fastest growing areas in green construction.
Remodeling or retrofitting an existing building to green standards has its own challenges distinct from those in new construction, including the range of existing conditions, the custom nature of the work, occupants, integrating the old with the new, and the diversity of projects, from gutting a room to tearing a structure down to the framework and rebuilding.
The currently most used green products for remodeling include replacement windows and HVAC systems ... but even basic attention to a range of existing, non-energy-efficient systems, such as cleaning and unblocking air ducts, could save energy and lower powerbills.
Green retrofitting and renovation are certain to accelerate because they make good economic sense.
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New residential or commercial construction
One of the single most effective green strategies available right now is to design and build Eco-(economically and ecologically)-friendly structures. Consider the impact that buildings have on our resources. In the United States alone, they presently account for the following:
- 12 percent of potable water consumed (The U.S. Green Building Council says building consume five billion gallons of potable water
per day just to flush toilets)
- 30 percent of raw materials used
- 30 percent of waste produced
- 48 percent of total energy use (Some estimates say that buildings consume as much energy as industry and transportation combined)
- 76 percent of electricity used It isn't difficult to see where changes can and should be made. The challenge is to build new buildings, and renovate the older ones, in ways that reverse unhealthy trends. The solution is to build green. But all that designing, buying, building, retrofitting adds up to a lot of questions about how to do it right.
We can help you do it right the first time.
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